“When you listen to Umm Kulthum, you just can’t stand still. The song gets inside you and makes you move and then you understand the meaning. The song makes you so happy that you feel you’re dancing ...

A film within a film, Looking for Oum Kulthum is the plight of an Iranian woman artist/filmmaker living in exile, as she embarks on capturing the life and art of the legendary female singer of the ...

(MENAFN- Gulf Times) Film director Shirin Neshat, accompanied by actress Neda Rahmanian, shared the difficulties she faced in telling the story of legendary Egyptian singer Oum Kulthum in her film at ...

It was supposed to be the event film of the year: a biopic of the Arab world’s most enduring singer, helmed by Marwan Hamed, one of Egypt’s most commercially successful filmmakers and written by Ahmed ...

"All Arabs agree," reads The Rough Guide to World Music. "Umm Kulthum is indisputably the Arab world's greatest singer." The name Umm Kulthum may not strike a chord to Western ears, but she was a ...

Looking for Oum Kulthum (2017), directed by Shirin Neshat in collaboration with Shoja Azari (image courtesy of Razor Film) Presented by the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the Taiwan Collateral Event ...

Iranian visual artist Shirin Neshat speaks to Dheepthika Laurent about her latest exhibition in Paris, "Looking for Oum Kulthum", a visual homage to one of Egypt's greatest songstresses. They also ...

These two excerpts from the documentary film, "Umm Kulthum: A Voice Like Egypt," show the power and nuance of the great singer's voice. Umm Kulthum sings a love song composed by one of her rivals.